Curtains We Have Designed & Made For Our Clients

Our Curtains

Our curtains are beautifully made with hand finished, hand sewn seems, and properly weighted. Our pelmets are crafted and drawn by hand, and over the years we have covered many windows treatments.

Italian strung curtains

Allow £495 per curtain for making and materials, + fabric and trimmings

a great idea as the curtains open upwards, like a theatrical opera set, revealing the light, half circular, we make this set with Goblet headings and rope twist, Italian strung curtains made for the master bedroom for clients in Knightsbridge, overlooking Hyde park.

Pole Wrap

A classic treatment to dress a window and feel more important, or showcase a view, or make some heightened drama in the room, but also the pole keeps it feeling more modern, pole wrap made for clients in Knightsbridge, and pole wrap made for clients in Oxford.

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A pretty French toile de jouy pole wrap for a guest bedroom in knightsbridge.

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Random Gathered Heading Curtains

What I like to call our romantic cosy fireside cottage window feel, perfect for a little Oxfordshire thatched cottage, with small windows, or farmhouse look, looks great on a pole, and also you can use less fabric than pinch pleat headings, and get away with 1¼ to 1½ widths per window side, and it still feels a fuller treatment, you generally save yourself upto 3 mtrs of fabric per window over pinch pleats, I would say a popular default position for traditional Georgian , Victorian and Edwardian houses, if the rooms are more town house style, and taller like in London, Central Oxford etc, then you need to upgrade to a deeper 5” heading, as the little 3” heading is perfect for most smaller houses, but could get a bit lost, its not a formal look, more an understated rectory/vicarage/farmhouse look, but we pull though our headings randomly, so they feel less contrived like machine headings all ridiculously uniform, it’s a soft friendly, welcoming way of dressing a room , and works for county houses, and most guest bedrooms, if you have a few more formal dramatic reception rooms, or master bedroom, then you need to look at pinch pleat headings, cartridges and goblets.

Random Gathered Heading Curtains

Made for a lady’s Study, we’ve matched an antique silver pole to beautiful French embroidered linen and striking French blue border in soft linens, fabrics, very elegant and feminine and fresh, Georgian manor house, Woodcote, Oxfordshire.

“A Lady’s Study”

To make one pair of full length curtains lined and interlined in French blue/cream/stone linen , on a silver leaf distressed pole with ball ends £150.00

Fabric required

Random Gathered Curtains

Made for a real tall elegant real lady Penelope’s Georgian farmhouse manor master bed- en-suite terrace, in shot pink and silver silks, from sanderson, her house was a display of silvers and pinks, Goring heath, Oxfordshire.

Fabric required

Random Gathered Curtains Into A Box Bay Window

Made for Drawing room in an Edwardian house in Goring & Streatley, Oxfordshire, fabric is GP&J Baker embroidered linen, autumnal rusts against burnt oak flooring, and charcoal coloured fireplace and accessories, for a modern country feel.

Random Gathered Curtains

Single Pinch pleat / unstuffed single cartridge Curtains

A more modern less fussy and slightly less formal heading than a triple pleat heading, basically without the pinch at the bottom, it becomes a more soft unstuffed cartridge.

Single Pinch Pleat / Soft Cartridge

single pinch pleat/soft cartridge for master bedroom, Young couple with an Edwardian house in Goring & Streatley, Oxfordshire, a beautiful French Nobilis damask silk, almost three dimensional, reflective aqua blue & green.

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Double Pinch Pleat Heading Curtains

Slightly more formal than single pinch pleat but less traditional than triple pinch pleat, (however I have done tripe pinch pleats in very modern settings and looks amazing, especially in plain silks or plain fabrics, which need a more interesting heading), also it just depends on the fabric as sometimes we use upholstery weight fabrics, and then the heading is better for single or double pleat , as the thicker the fabric the less you can do with it. Curtains made for a house in London below.

Triple Pinch Pleat Heading Curtains

For a more formal look, or higher windows, your default position drawing curtains/main reception rooms look, ours are beautifully made and hand stitched, having a real couture look and feel, again makes a plainer fabric more interesting. Pictures 1, 2 and 3 show triple pleat heading curtains made for a lovely couple, in a beautiful setting with gardens and lawns going down to the river in Henley-on-Thames, a nice sanderson country linen, in subtle creams , with a barn style versatile French grey washed pole and my favorite bee hive finials, a modern anchored calm country feel.

“Drawing Room”
To make

2 x pairs of lined and interlined curtains, with returns, (2½ widths per pair of curtains) weights on every seam and corners, handmade curtains with lining and interlining hand stitched in, @£150.00ea £300.00

Triple Pinch Pleat Heading Curtains Henley-on-Thames

Pictures below show a triple pleat curtain made for a client In Henley-on-Thames, essentially a good heading for plain fabrics like silks, as gives interest, and anchors plain fabrics, and although a traditional finish, in a plain silk somehow looks modern, Chase Erwin Icelandic ribbed silk fabric.

Cartridge Heading Curtains or inverted pleat

A more modern look, as no pinches, and so less fussy, perfect if making up in really heavy upholstery weight or tapestry or heavy weave fabrics, a hollow tube can be fitted inside the cartridge to give a uniform cylindrical effect, or left floppy, which can be nice for an unconstructed look, and can then be dressed into a knife edge finish or rounded off, sometimes some fabrics down do what you want them to do, for instance a heavy Harris tweed once dressed isn’t going to change much but other thinner fabrics, don’t stay in a dressed shape and you find you are forever fiddling and reshaping the headings, so we tend to stuff the cartridge with Dacron wadding to help keep a shape without being as uniform as the hard cylinder tube look, but essentially a very versatile modern heading, with lots of options.

Pictures below – a scattered bay curtain set with tube cartridge headings in a heavy fabric we made for clients in Oxford, French stripe really heavy rustic linen from Provence, Heavy wrought iron bay pole made specially (not hollow).

“Family Snug”

3 x full length pairs of scatter bay curtains, lined

£260.00

£260.00

£260.00

Fabric required

27.30 x French Provence colour 03 @£84.00/mtr £2293.20

Professional fitter, Hanging and Dressing £100.00

Goblet Heading Curtains

Like a cartridge but gathered or pinched at the bottom, also can be used for a modern effect, and for a impressive drawing room feel Picture 1 and 2, we made the curtains for a family drawing room in an Edwardian family home in Thames Ditton, Surrey.

Fabric required

Goblet Heading Curtains – Oxfordshire Countryside

Picture 3,4,5, we made the curtains for a country house in the Oxfordshire countryside, using natural rope, to give a masculine feel against the floral linen fabric, the couple spent a lot of time in Cotswold country hotels on business and wanted to achieve a similar look and feel, we used modern rustic linen country floral fabrics and Swedish blue grey checks and natural hessian rope and tiebacks, goblet headed curtains with rope twist.

“Sitting Room – Curtains”

French doors –pair 1
1 x pair of full length weighted, thermal lined and interlined curtains, 1.5” overhang, with goblet headings on a barnstyle pole, with hessian trim to leading edge and rope to goblets £330.00

Linings, interlinings, heading hooks and weights £330.00

1 x barn style 45mm dia pole inc finials, brackets and rings £269.00

Fabric required

12.50 x mtrs rustic floral linen @£74.16/mtr (pair 1) £927.00

11.5 x mtrs of hessian fringe @£7.20/mtr (pair 1) £82,80

7.5 x mtrs of rope for goblets @£5.60/mtr £42.00

2 x rope tassel tiebacks inc 12 tieback hooks @£51.60ea £103.20

Soft Applied gathered pelmets

I love this design, as its attached to a normal pair of gathered headed curtains, and just gives so much more interest, it is a cottage look, works wonderfully on a pole, but I think because of the applied pelmet, it can be used for grand effect in taller rooms, again it’s such a country house staple, to achieve that impressive feel, but at the same time still feel soft and understated.

Soft Pelmet Curtains

A pretty set of applied soft pelmet curtains , to give a French farmhouse feel, using French countryside floral linen, and French blue edging.

“Garden/dining room”

1 x pair of curtains on a pole, plus 1.5inch overhang, pole will need to come out on an extended bracket, curtain returns to one side, contrast blue edge to base, inside and outside edge, gathered heading, and applied pelmet as showroom curtains with contrast border to base and both edges, small fringe to base of pelmet £460.00

Gathered Pelmets

A fantasy stone cottage near the riverbank looking across an open meadow at the Thames, in Preston crowmarsh, near Wallingford, the client and I wanted to try and create a Victorian cottage garden feel, like a little oil painting, basically bring the garden in, as they are keen gardeners.

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Soft Gathered Pelmets

An old farmhouse in Ipsden, in cheerful farrow and ball babouche yellow distemper walls, a large room with oak panelling and a grand piano and two fireplaces, the curtains are in colefax and fowler, viviers, one of my favourite designs, sort of 1930’s feel, and in this case set against parquet flooring and contemporary paintings for an artistic feel.

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Soft Pelmet Curtains Guest Bedroom

Bed half tester and curtain pelmets, eventually the room was fabric backed including the ceiling in a toile de joey, French countryside scenes, which is being hinted at through the pelmet teardrop droplets design, we made these curtains in a cream shantung silk and Titley & Marr toile de joey, the client loved this guest room, their favourite, country house in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire.

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Castle Effect Pelmet

Castle effect pelmet, we made these curtains for a son’s bedroom, the client thought he will love it when he was 20 , curtains we made for a country house in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire.

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Cottage soft gathered pelmets

Pelmets are a useful way of hiding a track , also if there are any step up or step down features into a dormer space you can hide them, the only alternative is a board and fascia, which can cover/conceal the track, sort of, but thein it’s a hard line, against soft curtains, and so soft gathered pelmets work well in most settings, unless you want a more masculine feel like a gentleman’s study, club feel, then a covered board and facia looks good, the only thing I feel is a covered board looks like you cant afford a pelmet, so its probably better to go for a pole, if you don’t like pelmets, so much, however poles don’t work everywhere and for small cottage windows, if you want to create that farmhouse cottage feel, soft gathered pelmets work really well, and you end up with a very cheerful cosy feel.

Picture 1 – a gentleman’s bathroom, hunting and shooting scenes from Sanderson, we made for a client’s cottage nr the thames, wallingford

“Cottage Bedroom”

Cottage Curtains and soft pelmet £256.30+vat, 4.8mtrs fabric

Bay Windows

These are quite hard to get right partly because visually you are looking at the curtains in a distorted way as side on not flat, like a normal window, a large bay is fantastic for a scattered set of curtains, that definatly works , and they need properly dressing for effect, but try that in a small bay and its overkill, likewise if you have a small to medium box square bay and try finishing the curtains outside the bay on the return that can feel like too much fabric, as the sheer distance the stacked up fabric has to travel to the start of the actual window, can look overwhelming, but finished inside the bay and it can feel too squashed in, so you want to take the curtains past the window to the edge of the recess, but not return, I really recommend just a set of dress curtains and working romans for the bay windows, or just romans into a bay, then the trouble with romans is if you cant get them up high enough you loose light and its as if your windows have lost the top third of them, so basically as a rule of thumb, scattered sets for large five sided bays and just a pair of curtains for smaller bays and box bays, and if there is enough height then do dress curtains with roman blinds.

Scattered Sets of Bay Window Curtains

“Master Bedroom”

3 x pairs of scatter bay curtains, please remember there is more work involved in putting on a coach line border in the chocolate/mocha colour, which is really essential in my opinion, otherwise the curtains will just be a wall of cream) £320.00

Scattered Set Into Bay Window

Scattered set into bay, a block the world out fun family time room, we made these curtains for our clients in Oxford, rustic French stripe from Provence.

“Family Snug”

3 x full length pairs of scatter bay curtains, lined

£260.00

£260.00

£260.00

Lining, heading, hooks and weights £180.00

Fabric required

27.30 x French Prevonce colour 03 @£84.00/mtr £2293.20

Professional fitter, Hanging and Dressing £100.00

Pair of Curtains Into Bay Window

Pair of curtains into a bay with a covered padded pelmet for a calm feel to a master bedroom, we made these curtains for our clients in Henley-on-Thames, a rustic and surprisingly more interesting heavy French linen.

“Master Bedroom”

To make
1 x pair of lined and interlined gathered bay window curtains with returns on a Covered lathe with 3” upstand, weights on every seam and corners, handmade curtains with lining and interlining hand stitched in £350.00

Lining, interlining, heading, hooks and weights£223.20

Fabric required

17.80 x mtrs of French farmhouse lacoste @£83.75/mtr £1490.75

Bay window swish superlux corded track £80.00

Pole carriage charge £15.00

Sanderson carriage charge £12.50

Paris carriage charge £15.00

Bed Treatments

Four Poster Beds

This is a simple version, we make different examples of bed curtains and treatments, with central rosette sunbursts and bed curtains, this is an example of a more simple modern timeless feel, and sometimes they are are really nice feature in a stand out master bedroom, for that fantasy effect, and we can make them with curtains to all posts, but they feel more open with just curtains to headboard.

London town house

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London Town House

Similar design but with single gathered top pelmet and a bow design four poster bed , also showing our handmade full sunburst and coronet to top.

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Bed Coronets & Coronas

We made this in a fabric inspired by a coastal Devonshire cottage in Kingsbridge, Devon, by Mrs Jean Monro we used a heavy French style blue ticking stripe on the back to neutralise the flowers, by Gp&J Baker, and used an Andrew Martin limed panelling wallpaper behind to keep the coastal feel.

Victorian Town House Wallingford Master Bedroom

Impressive Victorian Town house in Wallingford with views across the river Thames.

“Master Bedroom”

To make
1 x pair of lined and interlined gathered bay window curtains with returns on a Covered lathe with 3” upstand, weights on every seam and corners, handmade curtains with lining and interlining hand stitched in £350.00

Lining, interlining, heading, hooks and weights£223.20

Fabric required

17.80 x mtrs of French farmhouse lacoste @£83.75/mtr £1490.75

Bay window swish superlux corded track £80.00

Pole carriage charge £15.00

Sanderson carriage charge £12.50

Paris carriage charge £15.00

Swags & Tails

A dramatic fantasy look, for that stand out drawing room, totally timeless if you have the height, and the window proportions, I can let you know if its going to work or not.